NEW STATIONS. 429 my plans appear to you practicable, to proceed to put them into execution as far as possible without delay. I may appear to you rather egotistical, but does not every gardener seek to protect the flowers which bloom under his care ?

Our country has remained quite quiet at present. About six hundredweight of ivory lies in the magazines, and a quantity of tamarinds, ostrich feathers, Butyrospermum fat, Arachis oil, hides, &c., are waiting to be disposed of. My men have erected a new station on the Kibi, and another party is going to occupy the road between it and the station of Wadelai, so that the ivory may now be sent from the station of Kubi in Monbuttu to those of Tambira and Légo on the upper Kibali, and thence past the new station on the Kibi to Wadelai, whence the steamer will bring it to Dufilé. In the east, also, the station of Tarangole is finished, and that of Lobbor, which will join the line of Fajulli, Facher, Farshile, is in course of erection. The flora of the tablelands in the east differs entirely from that of this neighbourhood, and is much more similar to that of Kordofan.

I brought rather rich zoological collections from my last tour to the south-south-east, and, as far as I can decide with my small supply of hterature, I shall be able to send to Dr. Hartlaub, my amiable correspondent, eight or nine new species of birds and two new mammals. I should like to have collected insects, but I had no pins. As for anthropological objects, I have some crania to send to Europe. Should you like some for Virchow? I have made a good number of measurements, among others six to eight of Akka (Pf and Q), all according to Broca’s scheme, which M. Vossion* kindly gave me, with a splendid portable apparatus for measuring. This is very different from the conduct of the Government, for I have twice applied to it, and written privately to Stone Pasha to get some instruments I wanted—particularly a small altazimuth instrument, or at any rate a theodolite and chronometers—either on loan or to be paid for out of my salary: of course ‘they have neither time nor inclination in Hegypt for such matters. It does not signify, however, for I have already _ ™ He was at the time the French Vice-consul in Khartim, and is at present French Consul-General at Philadelphia.